Essential or Expendable? Working in Higher Education during COVID-19
This is the first in a series of essays on “Higher Ed Wall-to Wall in Tennessee,” which will continue for the rest of.
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New Book Interviews
Verónica Martínez-Matsuda on Her New Book, Migrant Citizenship
Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues with Verónica Martínez-Matsuda. The University of Pennsylvania Press.
- by Jacob Remes
- July 23, 2020
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Lecturer Organizing and COVID-19
The public health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the problems with America’s two-tier system of college teaching. Because most.
- by Trevor Griffey
- July 21, 2020
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Precarious Academic History in Australia & Organizing for Solidarity
Since the 1990s, the percentage of teaching delivered by precarious scholars has increased in Australian universities, like in many other countries. The sector.
- by Hannah Forsyth
- June 26, 2020
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The Coronavirus Message: America Needs Universal Paid Sick Leave
The global coronavirus pandemic is walloping California, and Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered all 40 million residents to ‘shelter in place’ except for.
- by Martin Bennett
- June 22, 2020
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The Contagion and a Cure
Mark Lause looks at the 1793 yellow fever pandemic in Philadelphia from a working class history perspective, and finds it informs us today..
- by Mark Lause
- May 18, 2020
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Labor & Working Class Cultural Picks to Click
One of my favorite quotes from Mother Jones is “Sit Down and Read. Educate Yourself for the Coming Conflicts.” While she had a.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 13, 2020
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Covid-19, the Halifax Explosion, and Crises of Care
One of the first principles of critical disaster studies is that disasters exist not as time-out-of-time, but as embedded in the times and.
- by Jacob Remes
- May 5, 2020
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OpEd
Front-line workers in the covid-19 fight need unions
New Deal-era labor laws must be refreshed and improved to support and empower today’s essential workers. William Jones
- by William Jones
- April 23, 2020
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Labor and COVID-19: An International Perspective
How can we examine COVID-19 crisis from a global labor perspective? Several hundred people tuned in on April 9, 2020, for a discussion.
- by Lisa Philips
- April 21, 2020